[1,drop=TRUE] no longer returns vector from FLQuant. about flcore HOT 3 CLOSED

I see where the problem comes from. From that commit if a single vector of is given, and drop=TRUE, it is taken to be used to select elements along the whole object, for example

x[c(1,4,7,8), drop=TRUE]
[1] 11 22 14 24

The code doing it is at, https://github.com/flr/FLCore/blob/master/R/FLArray.R#L159

This is trying to mimic the behaviour of the array class, where you an do

[email protected][c(1,2,4,5)]
[1] 11 21 22 13

which could not be done in FLQuant.

The confusion only occurs when sub-setting on the first dimension, not on others

x[,1:2, drop=TRUE]
     year
quant  1  2
    1 11 12
    2 21 22

Now, I would like to preserve this new behaviour, as it got added because it was needed, but would also like to find a way for your subsetting needs to work.

Are you trying to select some rows and also convert to an array with less dimensions?

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I was actually using what ever worked, so probably not a bug at all :)
The behaviour you have now, is what you get with array, so I am quite happy with that - it was more to make you aware that there was a change is how the [] function behaved.
Happy for this to be closed as an isssue

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OK, if you find it too difficult to extract elements from an FLQuant into a plain array let me know and we look at it again

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